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Chicken-Hawks, NRA, drive GOP agenda of fear, anger 0

Chicken-Hawks, NRA, drive GOP agenda of fear, anger

Does the Second Amendment guarantee our right to kill? GOP plays on fear disguised as freedom. Image credit:  http://ladilex123.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/gun-violence.jpg At least a dozen people shot dead in the Colorado slaughter, and the RepubliCorp Party...

Judging the Judge Candidates 0

Judging the Judge Candidates

Ok, a little more on the judge races. And specifically on the question of how to figure out who is really qualified to sit on the bench. The table below is from VotingForJudges.org.  VFJ...

The End of Loser Liberalism 0

The End of Loser Liberalism

Economist and Co-Founder of The Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker has released a free, online edition of his book The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive “Progressives need a fundamentally...

Saturday on Al Jazeera, Inside Story — Poverty in America 0

Saturday on Al Jazeera, Inside Story — Poverty in America

Rocky Anderson – Justice Party Presidential Candidate 2012 Cornel West – American philosopher, author, critic, and civil rights activist Barbara Ehrenreich – American feminist, democratic socialist, and political activist Stan Veuger – Economist, American Enterprise Institute  This meeting of great...

Step 9 Rethink Democracy 0

Step 9 Rethink Democracy

If we really want to restore or Democracy and end corporate corruption, it is time to change the way we think about elections – which are the foundation of our Democracy. The corporate controlled...

If an Agent Knocks on your door… 0

If an Agent Knocks on your door…

Well, the news in Olympia is that the agents came knocking in the last few days. Our free society has generally embraced the political freedom of aligning with either the Republican or the Democratic...